← Artist catalog

The catalog behind the coverage.

goblossom links international artists to countries, official accounts, music releases, source coverage, career history, and dated audience observations.

Collection status: this is a sourced discovery catalog, not a verified current Top 20 chart. Country candidate lists are ordered by Wikidata sitelink counts—a measure of encyclopedia coverage. They include legacy acts and have cultural, language, and database-coverage biases. Empty fields are research gaps.

Data model

RecordKey fields and relationships
Countries & artist-country associationsCountry code, names, target count, artist ID, citizenship/origin association, candidate position, ranking basis, evidence URL, checked date. Artists can belong to several rosters.
ArtistsStable Wikidata ID, name, native name, description, genres, languages, source-reported website, source provenance. One identity across countries.
Artist accountsPlatform, account ID, URL, artist ID, verification status, evidence, checked date. Source-reported is distinct from first-party verified.
Metric snapshotsArtist, platform, metric, account ID, exact value, observation date and date precision, method, evidence URL. Append-only time series; compare only matching platform, metric, and account.
Labels & relationshipsArtist, label/manager/distributor, role, current/historical/unconfirmed status, start/end dates where documented, evidence URL, checked date.
Career eventsArtist, event type, date with source precision, title, explanation, source URL. Missing dates are not invented.
ReleasesArtist, title, format, release date, language, official announcement/listening URL, editorial notes. Imported release lists are partial.
Coverage & capturesArtist, source URL, publisher, original language, date, original summary, source text/notes, content fingerprint. Capture deduplication uses normalized URLs or text hashes.
Media assetsStory, image URL, original source URL, alt text, creator credit, license. Discovery of an image does not grant reuse rights.
Stories & revisionsArtist/release/source relationships, headline, dek, body, format, SEO fields, social caption, newsletter blurb, verification checks, immutable revision snapshots.
Generation jobsIdempotency key, input snapshot, generator/version, output story, status, errors and timestamps. The active generator is a structured factual release-brief template.
PublicationsStory, exact reviewed revision, publishing actor/time, withdrawal time. Publication requires saved fact and rights checks.
Monitoring sourcesArtist, URL, platform, retrieval method, status, last check/error. On-demand historical Wikidata metric refresh is available; no recurring scheduler or authenticated platform collection is active.

Source and ranking methodology

The initial country inventory uses Wikidata ISO country codes and includes territories and additional music markets. Country candidates are gathered from citizenship or country-of-origin relationships using MusicBrainz identifiers and supplementary musician-occupation queries, then filtered for music-related occupations or group types. The first 20 qualifying candidates by sitelink count form the provisional roster. A broad legacy catalog is useful for history; current-popularity rosters require a separate dated ranking built from platform or chart evidence.

The initial account and label data is sourced from Wikidata statements. An undated label relationship is unconfirmed, not a claim about a current contract. Language fields describe source-recorded languages, not necessarily every language the artist records in. Individual profiles link to the source record.

What works now

Browse and search country rosters; inspect sourced artist profiles; add releases, coverage, captured updates, metric snapshots, label relationships, and career events; refresh historical metric observations on demand; create factual release briefs with social/newsletter derivatives; revise, review, publish, and withdraw stories.

What is not connected

Continuous discovery, recurring social monitoring, authenticated streaming/social APIs, automatic translation, and model-generated reviews are not active. No invented follower counts, listening experiences, quotes, or unverified image permissions are used to fill gaps. A complete, current Top 20 per country still needs local-source validation and current popularity evidence.

Storage and export

Download the SQLite database, CSV tables, and coverage report. The imported catalog is versioned with the application. Editorial additions and metric histories persist in a relational database. Imported artists are materialized into the database on first write. This preserves a reproducible source baseline while allowing ongoing research.

Download the catalog JSON · Download the artist index CSV · Download country coverage CSV · Download SQL schema

Baseline structured data: Wikidata CC0. Linked articles, social pages, and images retain their own rights.

Verification evidence model

Open the verification desk. The original import stays immutable. A reviewed overlay records corrections, aliases, before/after values, claim-level evidence, status, reviewer, and check time. Website observations record requested URL, final URL, HTTP outcome, page title, content hash, and exact outgoing-link matches. Raw article bodies are not republished.

Account states: source_reported; corroborated_link_review_pending; first_party_link_verified. The last state verifies a reviewed link from an artist site, not authenticated account ownership or audience statistics. A page fetch, a matching name, or an encyclopedia entry never verifies an entire profile.

Verification is versioned alongside the catalog and survives reassembly using the reviewed overlay. These evidence records are not a new editable database table; editorial additions retain their existing relational storage. The research-queue CSV describes the original baseline; corrected values and subsequent evidence are in the corrected catalog and verification export.

Ranking publication requires an explicit country-association definition, eligible candidate population, observation window, comparable metrics, source dates, territorial scope, missing-data treatment, and editorial approval. No current Top 20 ranking is verified by this pass. Missing metrics stay unavailable, not zero; record-label website presence does not establish contractual exclusivity.

Download evidence and decisions · Download baseline research queue